The full 2009 Greener Gadget speaker lineup will be announced shortly.
Expect an impressive roster on par with the 2008 conference, including green innovators and thought-leaders, environmental stewards of top electronic brands, cleantech entrepreneurs, industrial designers, engineers and inventors.

SAUL GRIFFITH
Dr. Saul Griffith has multiple degrees in materials science and mechanical engineering and completed his PhD in programmable assembly and self replicating machines at MIT. He is the co-founder of numerous companies including Low Cost Eyeglasses, Squid Labs, Potenco, Instructables.com, HowToons and Makani Power. Griffith has been awarded numerous awards for invention including the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Collegiate Inventor’s award, and the Lemelson-MIT Student prize. He holds multiple patents and patents pending in textiles, optics, nanotechnology, and energy production.

STEPHEN HARPER
Stephen Harper is Global Director of Environment and Energy Policy for the Intel Corp. He also serves as chairman of the International Climate Change Partnership (ICCP) and, over the years, has chaired many high tech industry groups. Prior to joining Intel, he directed Amoco Petroleum’s fuel regulatory services group and was a Senior Policy Analyst at the Environmental Protection Agency.

GRAHAM HILL
Graham Hill is Vice President of Interactive Media, Planet Green and founder of TreeHugger.com, one of the most respected and trafficked environmental sites on the web, where he currently focuses on pushing sustainability into the mainstream. Hill and his team at TreeHugger.com recently joined the Discovery Communications family of networks as part of its Planet Green multi-platform, global environmental initiative. Hill’s past businesses include forays into fashion, web-development, viral email and plant-based air filters.

EMILY PILLOTON
Emily Pilloton is the founder and executive director of Project H Design, a nonprofit that enables product design initiatives for humanity, habitats, health, and happiness. Trained in architecture at UC Berkeley and product design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Pilloton started Project H in 2007 to provide a conduit and catalyst for need-based product design that empowers individuals, communities, and economies. Current Project H initiatives include water transport and filtration systems in South Africa and India, educational math toys for a school for AIDS orphans in Uganda, a homeless-run design co-op in LA, and design concepts for foster care education and therapy in Austin. She has written for publications including ID, GOOD, and ReadyMade.

DANIEL SIEBERG
Daniel Sieberg joined CBS News as the network’s science and technology correspondent in December 2006. He contributes to the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, the CBS Early Show, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS Radio and CBSNews.com. Sieberg has reported on everything from climate change in the Arctic to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to Burning Man in Black Rock Desert. His eclectic mix of interview subjects includes Bill Gates, Hugh Hefner, Steve Wozniak, Tony Hawk, Peyton Manning, Curt Schilling, and Paula Abdul. For Planet Green, Sieberg co-hosts G Word, a daily show focused on how to be green and eco-friendly in your everyday life.

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